Macbook Pro HANGS - Can anyone help?

macrumors newbie

To whoever reads this, thank you in advance. My UbMBP 13 inch becomes completely non-functional from time to time - and won't work until I do a manual reboot by switching it off and turning it on by pressing the power button.

Could someone help me understand what may be wrong with my system? I've posted the data below.

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I'm definitely going to take it to an AASP. But was hoping someone could help me understand what's going wrong before that. Thank you to all of you for your helpful advice though. And If anyone does know what this is about, please do let me know.

macrumors 6502

I'm definitely going to take it to an AASP. But was hoping someone could help me understand what's going wrong before that. Thank you to all of you for your helpful advice though. And If anyone does know what this is about, please do let me know.

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No - I haven't been able to figure out the case. Spoke to an Apple technician on the phone, he said to repair permissions, reset pram etc etc. The basic steps (don't quite remember all of them) That hasn't helped. I've tested my ram with Tech Tool Pro 5, it doesn't seem to indicate any problems with the ram sticks.

Jockye2 - I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is yet. If you manage to find the cause before I do, let me know.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time out to suggest solutions.

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No - I haven't been able to figure out the case. Spoke to an Apple technician on the phone, he said to repair permissions, reset pram etc etc. The basic steps (don't quite remember all of them) That hasn't helped. I've tested my ram with Tech Tool Pro 5, it doesn't seem to indicate any problems with the ram sticks.

Jockye2 - I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is yet. If you manage to find the cause before I do, let me know.

Thank you to everyone who has taken the time out to suggest solutions.

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Just because it didn't indicate any problems doesn't mean there aren't any. Real memory tests take 48 hours to run to see if theres any problems.

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Alright, I'll take it in to an AASP. Jockey2 - I'll let you know when they let me know what's wrong. But it may take a while because the AASP in my area works at their own pace. Thank you everyone for your help.

macrumors newbie

Alright, I'll take it in to an AASP. Jockey2 - I'll let you know when they let me know what's wrong. But it may take a while because the AASP in my area works at their own pace. Thank you everyone for your help.

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I am having the same issue. After some research it seems that all of the recent users having this problem are using either VMware Fusion (Version 3.0.2 and 3.1), Parallels, or VirtualBox. It seems that something in how they interact with the kernel is causing the problem. Is anyone with Apple Care support getting any information from Apple? I haven't found an answer yet on the VMware Fusion forum yet.

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I'm not using any of these - neither VMware Fusion (Version 3.0.2 and 3.1), Parallels, or VirtualBox. I even changed my hard drive to rule out boot issues and the problem is still occurring. If anyone has any updates or solutions to this problem, please let us know.
Thanks.

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Yes. This is a fresh install - installed from the 10.6 Macbook Pro discs. It seems to be more of a Mac hardware issue than a hard disk issue. The same issue is occurring with 2 different hard disks indicating the common factor may be the Macbook Pro instead of the hard disks. However if anyone has any more helpful information, I'd appreciate it. I will update when I receive any more information also. As always, thank you for your help.

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